Missouri Choyamba
Kodi mumadziwa kuti Missouri linali dziko loyamba kuchita bizinesi ya vinyo mozama? Ngakhale kuti Amwenye Achimereka akhala akulima mphesa kuyambira kalekale, malonda a vinyo ku America ndi atsopano ndipo akhoza kutsatiridwa ku Germany kusamukira ku Missouri. Vinyo woyamba kuchokera ku mphesa zolimidwa komweko adayambitsidwa mu 1846 ndipo patatha zaka ziwiri malo opangira vinyo am'deralo adatulutsa magaloni 1000. Pofika m’chaka cha 1855, maekala 500 a munda wa mpesa anali kupangidwa ndipo vinyo anatumizidwa ku St. Louis ndi madera ena apafupi. Gulu lotsatira la osamukira kumayiko ena linabweretsa anthu aku Italiya ku boma ndipo adathandizira luso lawo pantchitoyi. Pofika pakati pa zaka za m'ma 19 dziko lino linali likupanga vinyo wambiri (ndi voliyumu), kuposa dziko lina lililonse ku USA.
Missouri linali dziko loyamba kuzindikiridwa ngati dera losankhidwa ndi boma la American Viticulturally Area (pakali pano kuli anayi m'boma) ndipo Clayton Byers, woyambitsa Montelle Vineyards (1970) anali wowonera vinyo. Panopa malowa ndi a Tony Koovumiian yemwe amati vinyo wake ndi wopambana chifukwa cha terroir, microclimate ndi mbiri yakale yomwe imabweretsa vinyo "watsopano, wonunkhira, wokhazikika komanso wodalirika," komanso wapadera - chifukwa cha luso la wopanga vinyo.
Missouri River ndi Hermann
Makampaniwa adayambira m'mphepete mwa Mtsinje wa Missouri m'tawuni ya Hermann. Imodzi mwa wineries oyambirira anali Stone Hill (1847) ndipo anakhala wachiwiri kukula mu fuko (ndi lachitatu lalikulu padziko lonse). Iwo anatumiza migolo miliyoni ya vinyo kumayambiriro kwa zaka za zana la 20 ndipo adapambana mphoto ku Vienna (1873) ndi Philadelphia (1876).
Werengani nkhani yonse pa vinyo.
